You can't just invent a good ritual through reasoning about symbolism. You need a tradition within which the symbols are embedded, and you need to invoke bodily feelings that have some appropriate associations. Then you need a community to endorse and practice it #JonathanHaidt

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Harlow argued that contact comfort is a basic need that young mammals have for physical contact with their mother. In the absence of a real mother, young mammals will seek out whatever feels most like a mother. #JonathanHaidt

...greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on going it alone. Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone... as if we've divided the world into those who offer help & those who need help. The truth is that we are both #BreneBrown